Peg-cutter



UNITED STATES .PATENT OFFICE.

ELIJAH HOLMES, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS.

PEG-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,285, dated March 9, 1880.

` Application filed J auuary 5, 1880.

To all whom it may concern Be it known lthat I, ELIJAH HOLMES, of Lynn, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a newr and useful Improvement in Peg-Cutters, Which invention is fully setforth in the following specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invent-ion relates to counter peg-cutters; and it consists in a laminated cutter composed of layers of cutting-blades constructed and combined substantially as hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan of my improved cutter. Fig. 2 is a vertical section ofthe same on linea` x, Fig. l..

lAis a cutter-bed, upon which a series of cutting-blades, l 2 3 4 5, are mounted. This bed is formed and designed to be attached to the socket-shank of a counter peg-cutter in the usual manner by a pivot extending from such shank through said bed at b. The bedis also recessed at c and d to receive the usual locking slide or spring which is attached to the shank, to secure such swivel-bed in Working position on its pivot; and projecting upward from the bed is a rectangular hub, c, upon and around which the cutting-blades, being provided With corresponding holes, are placed, one above the other, as shown. A central screw, B, is

threaded in said bed through hub e, the head of the screw being countersunk in a rectangular block or Washer, f, which serves to clamp the blades upon the hub and bed when screwed down upon the same, as shown.

The blades l 2 3 4 5 are constructed of plates of sheet-steel of uniform Width and thickness, but of gradually diminished lengths from 1 to 5, the ends whereof are bent obliquely, as shown, so as to form a series of upward-projecting cutting-edges gradually increasing in height above the bed from l to 5, such edges being rounded at their corners to protect the upper of the boot or shoe in Which 'they are employed from injury.

A peg-cutter so constructed possesses the advantages of greater effectiveness in use,con venience in sharpening, and in case a blade gets broken 0r otherwise unitted for use it is easilyreplaced Without requiring au entire new cutter. These blades also furnish a greater depth of Wearing-edge, are less liable to loss and damagein tempering, and in operation have a better clearance than cutters form ed in or upon a solid plate in the usual manner.

I claim as my inventionv l. A laminated peg-cutter composed of a series of bent blades, l 2 3 4 5, mounted upon a bed, A, and secured thereto, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The bed A, provided with a hub, c, a pivot-hole, b, and recessed at c and d, in combination with a series of detachable blades mounted thereon and secured thereto, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

ELIJAH HOLMES.

Witnesses EUGENE HUMPHREY, EBEN HU'rcHINsoN. 

